Daylight Comes Sideways

Fri, November 08

Daylight Comes Sideways

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Daniel Rybakken's light installations are striking in what they reveal about our primeval relationship with natural light. Take the room above: light enters seemingly from outside, expanding the perceived space beyond the room itself.

When the light is taken away, the room feels smaller, enclosed, claustrophobic.

Here Rybakken simulates the effect of daylight falling on a table by projecting light and the pattern of a shadow on the floor: an application which can be used in dark, enclosed spaces to give the illusion that bright light is streaming in.